You don't really need to worry about log/journalled file systems with
regard to fragmenting. Bear in mind that XFS is a fully 64-bit file system
and was designed from day one to address 9 exabytes!
Now, there are nice things applicable to Mythtv that XFS has or could be
taken advantage of:
- Huge single file size. We're talking 16 or 64 terabye file sizes on even
the oldest implementation on Linux.
- XFS supports "realtime" allocation. Rather than using the normal tree
structure, you can create a subvolume that is better suited to the
predictability that realtime A/V applications require. I suspect that SGi
(the originators of XFS) did this so they had a file system capabile of
serious Video-on-Demand (VoD) applications for cable companies.
-marc
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Chris Petersen wrote:
>> Should I be performing some type of defragmentation on my LVM? The drive
>> seems to be thrashing around quite a bit more recently and fragmentation
>> comes to mind from my windows experience.
>> afaik, none of the *nix filesystems need to be defragmented. they're all
> pretty good about keeping fragmentation down below 1%.
>> "thrashing around" could just be the filesystem shuffling things around to
> prevent fragmentation. or maybe they just hit some kind of "full" threshhold
> that ends up with more noisy operations.
>> -Chris
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